Wire-bound box.



0;' M. FOWLER.

WIRE BOUND BOX.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4. 1915.

Patented Nov. 12,1918.

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v WIRE BOUND BOX, APPLICATION FILED NOV-4,1915.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

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'Applicetien flied riovember e, 1915. Serial No. 58,529.

To all inn-tom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, OTIS M. FowLnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis in the county of lvierion eurl State of idiene, have invented s. new an useful i/Vire-Bouncl Box, of which the following is a s oecification.

The object of my inv' it wirebounzl hos: such cleats, forming part thereof, in moroughly protect the ends of the sheet sections; and extend "from edge to edge of each sheet; and inter loci; o prevent lateral slipping oi the l ens the construc ion being such o sets may e torinecl no greater the elects now commonly in use; I

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention, i is eperspective View of a compie eel ho einliozlyingz my inventioni Fig. f2 else oi .11 box blank embodying my ini'ei ion one encl of each sheet section being removed to show the sheet faces of Fig. 3 perspective view one chest, with a fragmentary portion of e sheet attached thereto, and an adjaeent sleet encl; Fig. 4 a perspective view of the efssocieted ends of two cleats; Fig. 5 :i perspective view of acijecent ends of two cleats, in a. slightly modified form.

in the drawings, indicates the main body of s sleet provided at one enrl with o tenon 11 which is conveniently formed at the middle of the cleet by equal cross reb- Along the sheet face oi the clout 1 form e longitudinal rubbet 14 at the inner corner of the clout. At the opposite end, clout is cross-rabbetecl at 16 so as to prociuee in that the to 2mm e 17 lying .i the "plane of tho north 3 the ciest, which forms the shouliier or. the is. The cross ruobet is preferably formccl by an ordinary inortising cutter which will serve to profiuce e allow mortise 19 and a short leg 21 per-r llei with the tongue 1'? and spaced from said tone'ue hy the shallow mortise 19.

The rabbct ie'hss a depth equal to the thickness oi the sheet material 22, and the sheets 22 have Widths equal to the total lengths of'the cleats to which they are at techeti, i. eyfroni the tip of tenon 11 to the tip of tongue 17. The sheets 22 are laid in the mortises 14, the cleats heingmacle rights and lofts, as'shown in 2, and secured in place in the usual manner by means of stupies 23 straddling binding wires 24: and passing through the sheets 22 into the cleats 10.

When the parts are folded into her: form, as shown in Fig. i, that edge of each sheet which lies flush With the ends of the tenon 11, will be overlapped by the inner face of the sheet of the scent section which has its edge iiush with the ones of tongues 17: The tenons 11, at their edges farthest from the sheet, take into the inortises 19 of the adjacent cleats so as to laterally interloer: the cleats when in i-olclecl position. The several portions 18 of a series of cleats coinpletely overlap 3110)? the end edges of the sheet sections, asvcleurly shown in 1, end thus protect the sheets from absorption of moisture when the box is set endwise upon a Wet surface.

In; the form shown in Fig, 5, each cleat 10 is provided upon its sheet surface with a longitudinal rebbet 14. At one end each cleat is provided with at cross rsbbet 25 at the outer face of the elect, and it the other end with a cross rabbet 26 at the inner face of the cleet, the tongue 27, formed by ml)- het 25, having a length equal to the Width of the shoulder 28 formed by the cross rabbet 26, while the tongue 29, formecl by the cross rebbet 26, has a length equal to the Width of tongue 27 plus the thickness of the sheet material (2. 8,, the depth of rabbet 14) and e Width equal to the entire thickness of the clout, In this form of elect, as in the form shown inflthe other figures, the sheet material will have a Width equal to the full distance between the end of tongue 2'? and the end of tongue 29, and when t is sections of the box are foldel together, the sheets will overlap in precisely the some manner and the ends of the sheets will be similarly protecteci.

IILESNE ASSIGEEMEE ETS,

leg 21. The production of my imp'rmacl (3M; 1;, therefore, does 110% involve midi expense.

1 c aim a5 my invention:

1. A package 012ml: comprising a. plural of sections each section mnxprising a $1161 znenwer and a fransvel e cleat, said 0100. having a longitudinal rabbet for the reception of the shoot, a tongue at one (and on) in "the plane of that portion of the deal; which forms the shoulder of the rabtimi, and at the other and 21 m 121112111115 offset from 1121i portion 0 L100 nlaat which 31' the houlder of he rubbet and hzw'in Width equal lea-u um Heath the atm- A puc n 1 with said t0 

